Papillon Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 That was absolute anti-football. To think Lambert gets a huge amount of criticism for his style of football, at least he doesn't have world class players at his disposal. Chelsea are an embarrassment. In isolation the the game was boring and Chelsea was playing destructive. However, are you a fool or are you just trying to be one for the sake of it? It's about winning the Champions League, it doesn't matter how you play the game in the end. By playing like that away from home, the chances are extremely high for the game to be without many goals and that benefits Chelsea at home next week. Mourinho has won the Champions League twice and you can bet your ass he will win it again in his career. Mourinho chooses to play like this, but he also knows how to score lots of goals with his teams. This season they have played without a good striker and that's why they really have to think differently, especially in big games. If they had someone like Drogba they would risk a bit more, but this was pure tactical genius. Everyone knew it before the game, still he managed to play 0-0. The difference with Lambert is that we play like that even if it's at home to Fulham or away to Man City, basically he doesn't know what he's going to get each game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 That was absolute anti-football. To think Lambert gets a huge amount of criticism for his style of football, at least he doesn't have world class players at his disposal. Chelsea are an embarrassment. Got the desired result though. More than we can say for our manager most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 BALE on the bench Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerbs Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Possession football is so dull to watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 23, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted April 23, 2014 That was absolute anti-football. To think Lambert gets a huge amount of criticism for his style of football, at least he doesn't have world class players at his disposal. Chelsea are an embarrassment. Got the desired result though. More than we can say for our manager most of the time. that's the thing. I continually preach that there is no such thing as the right way to play. Last night's display got Chelsea a result. Therefore it was good football. If they'd have gone out and played beautiful flowing football they may very well have lost. It won them the champions league a couple of years ago. Its not an embarrassment, its intelligent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 23, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted April 23, 2014 Lovely goal. Delicious pass from Ronaldo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Great counter. Last season, Bayern would have had about 4 goals by now. Pep has made them a little impotent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Great bit of play, good counter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 BALE on the bench He's ill, only just made the bench I think, have sky already said this 4 times? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 It took Gary Neville 27 minutes to talk about Lahr being a right back played out of position, that took longer than expected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 An alleged professional commentator who pronounces Real Madrid's "Real" as the English word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted April 23, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted April 23, 2014 An alleged professional commentator who pronounces Real Madrid's "Real" as the English word. That doesn't bother me too much to be honest. It kinda annoyes me when it's the other way round, like when English commentators call Cazorla "Cathhorla" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 (edited) Yeah I don't understand why sky never offer the la liga team on the red button when they do CL games I also don't understand how people who get paid to watch football always come across as of they don't watch any, if you paid me £30k a year I reckon I'd watch 10-15 games a week, real v bayern in the CL semi final, I'd have watched both teams 40 times this season, Gary Neville who is one of the best we have sounds like this is the 2nd or 3rd time he's watched each team Edited April 23, 2014 by villa4europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 "Get us up, easier said than done". Ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Madrid should be 3 up. Bayern = 500 passes, ending in an over-hit cross. Sounds familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Fairly minor foul and Pepe nearly ends up in Portugal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Madrid should be 3 up. Bayern = 500 passes, ending in an over-hit cross. Sounds familiar. Without Messi, Guardiolas teams are clueless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 23, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted April 23, 2014 Madrid should be 3 up. Bayern = 500 passes, ending in an over-hit cross. Sounds familiar. Without Messi, Guardiolas teams are cluelesslol Champions league semi final. Won the bundesliga in march. Undefeated for 50 odd games. Clueless. I'd **** love to be even half as clueless as that. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Yes Madrid have had the better chances but Bayern are dominating the game. I still think they will win this over the two legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerbs Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 25% possession omg, Ancelotti out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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